On Wed, 04 May 2016 05:32:29 +0200, Sjouke Burry
wrote:

On 04.05.16 5:06, Micky wrote:

I live in Md. and have Verizon copper for phone and DSL. The phone I
use mostly and for these incidents is hard-wired, though fwliw the
base of that phone is also the connection for cordless phones that are
available to it, but none have been in use during this problem: Lately
there have been seemingly random interruptions in my ability to hear,
though others can always hear me.

3 times I've been in a long conversation with a friend on a cell phone
with a headset, and for substantial periods, 5 minutes or more, I
couldn't hear her. She'd had trouble with headsets before so we
thought that's what it was. But I was on the phone with a bank
yesterday, and again I couldn't hear him for 3 or 4 minutes.

I tried wiggling, pushing and pulling the plug into the handset and
banging on the handset with my hand, and it had no effect. I didn't
touch the base of the phone this time or any of these times, and
nothing strange appeared on the computer which I sometimes use while
on the phone. (The phone is a Uniden, also with cordless phones
available but not in use.)

Then all of a sudden it started working again and did so for the rest
of the phone call, 10 minutes or more, and today it worked fine for 90
minutes.

Verizon provides the phone and the DSL for the computer. Nothing for
TV. Any idea what the problem could be? ;-) Or what I should try
next?

Does any WIFI work on the same frequency as your phone?

Well the phone says it runs on 5.8 MHz. I don't know what wifi runs
on.

But it's the phone with a cord that goes to the base station, with a
cord that goes to the central station, via copper, that stops letting
me hear other people. The cordless phones are all off, that is,
on just enough to know if the base station is calling them.

That is what happened to me with a wireless camera.
Which made for a lousy picture with blocks of noise in that.

Wow. I'll keep that in mind.